a party, the Patriots [Whigs]," D. W. Bro- gan reminds us in his acerbic POLITICS IN AMERICA (Harper, 1954, cloth; 1969, cloth & paper). "It had its origin in party meetings, caucuses* . . .in 'committees of correspondence' linking the party mem- bers from state to state, and it had its governing body in the various Congresses of which the most famous, in 1776, pub- lished the Declaration of Independence. The Founding Fathers . . .knew a great deal about parties and party organiza-...